We enjoyed Imoni and BBQ party.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura introduced the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 @Kobe in Digital Content Expo @Miraikan.

Assistant Professor Kazuki Takashima left for Interaction Lab., University of Calgary, Canada as a Visiting Assistant Professor.

We enjoyed a welcome and farewell party with guests.

Open Laboratory (10am-5pm):

Shoko Usui presented our work at 30th Annual Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology. Usui S, Yokoyama H, Kitamura Y: A Comparison among Three Display Media of Art Works for Appreciation.

Shoko Usui presented our work at The 19th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan. Usui S, He C, Takashima K, Kitamura Y: An Interactive and Flexible Display Approach of Art Collections for Education of Art Appreciation Encouraging Communication among Students.

Dr. Takaaki Shiratori of Microsoft Research Asia visited us and gave us a talk.

Dr. Taku Komura of University of Edinburgh, UK visited us and gave us a talk.

Dr. Taku Komura of University of Edinburgh, UK, Dr. Takaaki Shiratori of Microsoft Research Asia, and Dr. Yuriko Takeshima of Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University visited us.

We had a farewell party.

Ms. Mayumi Yamad of Kyoto University visited us.

A paper was appeared in Entertainment Computing.
Vi C, Takashima K, Yokoyama H, Liu G, Itoh Y, Subramanian S, and Kitamura Y: A dynamic flexible and interactive display method of digital photographs, Entertainment Computing, Elsevier –> [PDF]

We demonstrated our work “IM3D: Magnetic Motion Tracking System for Dexterous 3D Interactions” at SIGGRAPH 2014 Emerging Technologies, Vancouver, Canada.

RIEC International Symposium on Perception and Communication was held.

Prof. Paul Milgram of University of Toronto visited us and gave us a talk.

A paper was appeared in IEICE Transactions. Takashima K, Fukazawa R, Soemaker G, Kitamura Y: Comparison of Gestural Interfaces in Perspectively-Corrected Multi-Display Environment, IEICE Transacions D –> [PDF]

Kazuki Takashima, Assistant Prof. of RIEC gave a lecture at Tohoku University Science Caffee mini.

A joint research result with INRIA (France) was presented in Eurohaptics 2014 Argelaguet F, Sato T, Duval T, Kitamura Y and L_cuyer A: Collaborative Pseudo-Haptics: Two-User Stiffness Discrimination Based on Visual Feedback.

Prof. Kjell Yngve, Prof．Laura Beloff, and Ms. Katrine Corvinius of IT University of Copenhagen visited us and gave us a talk.